Lost River (film)

Lost River is a 2014 American fantasyneonoir film written, produced and directed by Ryan Gosling, in his directorial debut. The film stars Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn, Barbara Steele, and Eva Mendes. Principal photography began in Detroit on May 6, 2013. The film premiered in competition in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in the United States on April 10, 2015.

A construction crew begins tearing down the vacant houses in the neighborhood. One man spraypaints a D on Billys house, indicating that their loan is in default and it will be torn down if she is unable to pay off the loan. The familys neighbor Rat, who lives with her grandmother and her pet rat Nick, sings a melancholic tune about someone loving her. Her grandmother repeatedly watches her old wedding video, unable to deal with the loss of her husband who died while destroying a dam. Bones discovers an old road that is overgrown and leads under a lake. While hanging out with Rat, Bones learns that there used to be a town that was flooded when a reservoir was built, hence the name Lost River. Rat mentions having a video of it that her grandmother has kept for years. She notes that the only way to break the curse that is plaguing Lost River is to capture a beast from underwater and bring it to the surface. Billy is taken by a friendly cab driver to a burlesque studio downtown. She enters among the crowded audience to see a show put on by the main performer, Cat. The appeal of the show is a realistically gory murder show where Cat gets stabbed multiple times and has her blood spray all over the delighted audience. Billy goes backstage and meets with Cat who shows her where the real money is made in the basement. Down there, women will stand in locked plastic shells while men do whatever they want in their presence.Rat invites Bones out for a night on the town. They go dancing at an abandoned high school and intimate that they would leave town together if it came to that. Later, they go out to a gas station store and encounter Bully with his henchman Face, whose lips were cut off by Bully after he let Bones get away, leaving him horribly disfigured. Bones hides from Bully as he starts to talk to Rat. To protect Bones, Rat accepts Bullys offer to give her a ride home. Bully walks Rat to her front door and asks her if he can see her pet rat, Nick. He grabs the rat and vi

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